(Original post by Riya24)
A great tip , that you may not havee been taught ! If you want to score them hih marks use SYNOPTIC LINKS .for example : Men are able to commit more crimes as they have partiachal control over womens unpaid domestic labour.This could have a synoptic link to how men pay the instrumental role in the family.

You can link many concepts back to the family and eduation from units 1 & 2 !! hope that helpsss good luck guysss xxx

can we use synoptic links in the crime and deviance questions? my teacher has only mentioned them in the thoery questions!

(Original post by beccaa:))
im hoping for gender and crime, labelling theory and sociology as a science! have you got any suggestions?

I think gender is not very likely to come up as it has already been in the exam, but yh labelling has good chances of coming up as well as globalisation or may be suicide. For the 33 marker i would say either interactionism or functionalism. The methods questions is harder to say but the context may be something around coorporate crime, green crime or court proceedings as it hasnt come up yet....

a. Outline the topic, basic values. What they believe in overall, outline keywords, intro to what I’m going to do

1. Outline the first theory, who are they, and what they basically believe in
1) Outline the second theory, who are they, and what they basically believe in

2. A theorist who agrees with this theory and outline their views as well.
2) A theorist who agrees with this second theory and outline their views as well.

3. What other theories do they reject?
3) What other theories do they reject?

4. Criticise.
4) Criticise.

5. Evaluation of this theory> Strength and Weakness
5) Evaluation of this theory> Strength and Weakness

yeah id say thats about right, my teacher hasnt really given us any advice on structure as such, shes basically told us to include anything we possibly can as they can give us marks for anything we include!

Ok now I feel like doing Stratification & differentiation instead of Crime & deviance cos I just had a peek at it and it looks so much better! And I've barely learnt anything in lessons on C&D since September.. dunno what to do

(Original post by Just Josh)
Can someone help me out? Who is stuart hall and what was his study about? I can't seem to find a clear explanation anywhere..

I think stuart hall wrote policing the crisis, he is a radical maxist and his study is about how the 'young black mugger' got crimilaised as a result of a crisis in capitalism in the 70's. theres a good explanation in the 'sociology in focus' textbook

(Original post by beccaa:))
yeah id say thats about right, my teacher hasnt really given us any advice on structure as such, shes basically told us to include anything we possibly can as they can give us marks for anything we include!

(Original post by pearls)
I'm bit confused
In the exam do we write our own opinion?

no, it's irrelevant. even if you backed your opinion with an author like "i believe gender differences in crime rate is because of different socialisation, which is backed up by the sex role theory by Sutherland" it is just wasting time. and then you would kind of have to argue your own point which is not the aim of the essay and will interfere with your conclusion.

(Original post by funx11)
heyy im struggling remembering sociologists names , so do you think it would be ok in the exam if i referred to them as one sociologist or a sociologist.....?

remembering the study is more important than remembering the name of the author so yes. it's better to refer to the study by saying a sociologist or a marxist/functionist/feminist etc. and explain the case rather than leaving it out because you can't remember their name!